Rivesville Power Station

Rivesville Power Station is a power station owned and operated by the investor-owned electricity utility Allegheny Energy.

The power station has an installed capacity of 142 megawatts and is located in Rivesville, West Virginia.

Plant Data

 * Owner: Monongahela Power Company
 * Parent Company: Allegheny Energy
 * Plant Nameplate Capacity: 110 MW (Megawatts)
 * Units and In-Service Dates: 35 MW (1943), 75 MW (1951)
 * Location: 12 Jackson St., Rivesville, WV 26588
 * GPS Coordinates: 39.530611, -80.116694
 * Coal Consumption:
 * Coal Source:
 * Number of Employees:

Emissions Data

 * 2006 CO2 Emissions: 349,501 tons
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions:
 * 2006 SO2 Emissions per MWh:
 * 2006 NOx Emissions:
 * 2005 Mercury Emissions:

External Resources

 * Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2005, Energy Information Administration, accessed Jan. 2009.
 * Environmental Integrity Project, "Dirty Kilowatts: America’s Most Polluting Power Plants", July 2007.
 * Facility Registry System, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, accessed Jan. 2009.
 * Carbon Monitoring for Action database, accessed Feb. 2009.

Related SourceWatch Articles

 * Existing U.S. Coal Plants
 * West Virginia and coal
 * Allegheny Energy
 * United States and coal
 * Global warming
 * Coal